Current Coupons/wuxga

With the $750 off coupon currently floating around out there, I am sorely tempted to buy my laptop a couple months earlier than planned. I wasn't even really looking at dell but I just can't see the downside to loading an i6000 with $2150 worth of upgrades and getting it for $1400. I'm willing to lug around 7 lbs of notebook if it means getting that much more power.

So I have a question or two for you Dell gurus...

How rare is a deal like this? If I don't grab it, will I miss out for many months or more?

And on an unrelated matter...I am staggered at how high the resolution is on the wuxga screens. This is a 15.4 inch screen, and yet they're cramming over 2 million pixels onto it. As great as this sounds for watching movies, I'm concerned that text would just be too small...but I've never seen a screen like that in action.

My eyesight is perfect, but I'm still nervous...is wuxga worth looking at?

Thanks!

 

WUXGA is excellent. You can revert to WSXGA settings or WXGA also. Just because you have WUXGA doesn't mean you have to run it at that setting. It is better to have it and run it at a lower setting. The nice thing about running at WUXGA is surfing the net and watching a DVD at the same time or writing on Microsoft Word or running two browser windows concurrently.

The $750 offer was available last Fall. It should return. They appear to run these sales on cycles.

The latest coupons are listed on this site and on www.techbargains.com

A history of Dell Coupons is listed below:

http://www.xpbargains.com/dell_coupons/

Dell Inspiron 6000
1.6 GHZ Centrino (Sonoma)
WUXGA 15.4" WS
512 MB RAM
60 GB HD
Wireless B/G
DVD/CD-RW
9 Cell Battery x 2
Mozilla Firefox Browser
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Palmone Tungsten C/WIFI

 

You probably will see the $750 coupon again, but it will be a few months out. Last one was in October.

 

its not that rare. The best deal I seen so far ever was configure a machine over 1499+ and get 750 off. So people were getting 1500 dollar laptops for 750. That is rare.

Dont worry, their might be better deals on the horizon. Every thursday theirs a new deal.

 

Are you telling me that you can run a WUXGA screen at WSXGA+ resolution without any degradation in quality (ie. it looks exactly like a WSXGA+ screen)?

 

At least for JPEGs and watching DVDs I notice no difference.I do not distinguish a decrease in quality until drop to 1280x768 where there is an apparent loss of color saturation. The caveat is that I do not have a frame of reference between two similar computers with different native resolutions for a side by side comparison.

Dell Inspiron 6000
1.6 GHZ Centrino (Sonoma)
WUXGA 15.4" WS
512 MB RAM
60 GB HD
Wireless B/G
DVD/CD-RW
9 Cell Battery x 2
Mozilla Firefox Browser
---
Palmone Tungsten C/WIFI

 

Well, The $750 discount doesn't work with the 9200, XPS, XPS2, because it sayed to me that it cant work in combination to the $500 off going on now, if i am wrong or if there is a way to get around that can you please tell me before i order mine!!!! tonight, thank you.

P.S. Dell Always has discounts someway or another like free printer or free camera, something like that.[ ]

 

<blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by lockheed2266

 

This deal is worse than the last deal (34% off) for the i6000 for amounts over about $2200. It's about 37% off at $1999, which is a pretty good deal though. I've heard their best deals happen just before their fiscal quarters end. I don't know when that is, but finance.yahoo.com does.

Sometimes the deals are good depending on what you want. They might be a larger amount off a basic system, or less amount off a system with more free upgrades that you may or may not want.

 

I think Dell's last quarter ended in February. It suprised me to see the $750 coupon. I cancelled my original order for the 6000 with the 34% and reordered with the $750. This only makes sense if you configuration is under $2200. Grab that coupon while you can.